Click Your Fortune Episode 3 (Demo)

Click Your Fortune is an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure style series that literally feeds questions from students to knowledgeable experts around the world.

This episode features the professionals listed below answering dozens of questions submitted by students from all over the world. Got a burning question? A hero you'd like to see interviewed? A career you would like to see explored? Suggest and vote up ideas for future click your fortune videos here: https://community.ed.ted.com/teded/topics/suggest_questions_careers_and_people_for_the_next_click_your_fortune_episode

Francis de los Reyes III: Professor, Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University
Deena Gornick: Executive Coach
Jennifer Indovina: TED Fellow; CEO, Tenrehte Technologies
Daniel Suarez: TED Speaker; Author; Senior Systems Analyst

TED-Ed team here.

As you know, we usually post

animated educator lessons,

but today we wanted to try something a little different,

and we need your help to figure out next steps.

We've recently learned that a large number

of students that use TED-Ed

want to know more about career options,

and that they and the teachers and guidance counselors

that work with them need better tools

to make that happen.

We've been busy trying to design

an interactive series to meet those needs,

and today we want to share three videos

that demo how the series could work.

Each video features four people

with four different careers

reading questions submitted by students.

The answers to those questions

and follow-up questions can be explored

choose-your-own-adventure style through annotations.

For the purposes of the demo,

we sourced a few questions from students

and recruited a few TED speakers

and other professionals to answer the questions,

but those two things were done independently

of one another.

The idea for the actual series

is that the next set of videos

would only feature questions and people

suggested and voted up by you, the viewers.

So, if you tell us that the next video

should undoubtedly feature an arachnologist,

an album art creator,

a particle physicist,

and an engineer,

all giving away their trade secrets for your benefit,

we'll try our best to make that happen.

We think this could be a pretty fun series,

and we look forward to your feedback.

Enjoy the demo!

Now for the story of you,

the TED-Ed community,

your questions about potential careers,

and the TED speakers and working professionals

that you nominate to answer those questions.

It's an interactive show.

Welcome to "Click Your Fortune."

"My name is Jennifer Indovina.

I am a TED Fellow,

but I'm also the CEO of my own company.

It's called Ten Rate Technologies."

"My name is Daniel Suarez.

I'm currently a sci-fi thriller author.

Before that, I spent nearly 20 years

as a Senior Systems Analyst,

building big systems for global companies."

"Francis de los Reyes.

I am a professor of environmental engineering

at North Carolina State University.

I do research on leading-edge technologies

for waste water treatment

as well as MOLO class technologies

for sanitation in the developing world."

"I'm Deena Gornick, and I'm an executive coach.

And what that means is that I work

with women and men in business,

and I help them get out of their own way

to get what they want out of their careers

and out of their lives."

Each professional will now draw one of your questions

from the fortune cookie jar.

You can choose your own path from there.

You can also click this fortune cookie

at any time to suggest questions,

TED speakers,

other professionals,

and other professions

to be featured in future videos.

Let's see what fortunes await

this batch of volunteers.

"What's the worst job you've ever had?"

"How did you find the job that you currently have?"

"What was a moment in time

that you felt most inspired?"

"How has the world changed since you started work?"

You may now click any fortune

to see the question

and a handful of follow-up questions

explored by each speaker.

On the next "Click Your Fortune,"

you could you see the professional

you've always looked up to

answering questions you've always had

about the career you've always been curious about.

Click the fortune cookie to visit the TED-Ed community

and to suggest or vote up ideas for future videos.